The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-25

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assembly has introduced bill to pro-
hibit the custom of treating to drinks
in saloons.
The first pension TO survivor of the
Mexican war, under the recent law
was granted to Senator Williams, OF
Kentucky.
Colonel Gabe Wharton. a prominent
republican polite, an of Kentucky, was
found dead in bed in Louisville hotel,
Tuesday morning.
The Ashland mine at Hurley. Wis
cOnsin, has been sold by the Hayes
brothers to syndicate of Milwaukee,
ans for 81 100000.
Public sentiment in Missouri caused
the House to reconsider its vote re-
fusing to provide for the maintenance
Of the state militia.
| The director of the mint reports the
production of gold in the United States
for 1886 at 1876 100000, and the yield of
silver at $40 895 $50.
| The business men of Minneapolis
have rendered to the state of Mime
sofa capitol site and building, the
latter to cost $2,O0O,O 900.
| The Canadian Pacific officials deny
the published report that their road
has for twenty-three days been block
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Mr.. Beecher, in his Sunday sermon
| at Brooklyn, expressed his opinion that
| a man who believes in hell is candi-
date for lunatic asylum.
A call for $4,000, 900 in per cent.
bonds was issued Monday by the treas
ury department. Principal and in
terest will be paid at once.
On the ground that the money is
used to purchase police bludgeons,
Archbishop CrOke advocates the nom
payment of taxes in Ireland.
The personal effects of the late Mrs.
A. Il. Stewart are soon to be sold at
private auction i'm the thirty-fourth
street mansion in New York.
President Cleveland has vetoed the
bill apprOpriating $4,000 for the dis
tribution Of seeds i'm the counties of
Texas that suffered from drought.
II. Il. Gill, who last month accepted
the postmastership of Atlanta, ILL.,,
killed himself with morphine. He had
lost large fortune i'll speculation.
The Meier iron-works, erected oppo-
site South st. Louis at a cost of 81 300
600, are about to be started up, after
having been idle for several years.
Commissioner Black asks an appro-
priation of ST 200, 900 and the addition
of 22l clerks to his force to adjust PEN
sion claims by soldiers of the Mexican
war.
Both houses of the Indiana legisla-
ture have passed bill appropriating
$2000O0 for the erection of soldiers
monument i'll Circle park, ut Indian
apOlis.
1.-The law and order committee of
Union City, Tenn, visited and whip
thrnn
They wore masked, and no cause was
assigned.
John M. Glover, a congressman from
st. Louis, and Miss Augusta Patten
were married in Washington Monday
evening, and took their departure for
California.
On indictments returned by the Fed
eral grand jury at st. Louis, two clerks
of election and three barkeepers were
arrested Friday for election frauds
last November.
M. +. Force, for twenty years Judge
of the Superior court of Cincinnati, is
compelled to take rest for an indefi-
mite period. and will not be candi-
date for reelection.
Sister Genevieve, who recently left
the convent ut Newark. o., is living
with former nun at Chillicothe, and
has applied to the pope for permission
to retract her VOWS.
+. Il. Stockbridge, senator-clect from
Michigan, has purchased the old ST.
Luke's church at Kalamazoo to give to
the Young Mems Christian association
for building site.
The Minnesota Thrasher company,
recently formed in Boston, with capt.
tai of $5,OOO,000, is said to be really a
xNNS SnlN
factory at Saltwater.
A semi-official letter from st. Peters
burg represents that Russia is waiting
for FrancO-German conflict, which
she considers inevitable, to realize her
own Balkan projects.
The Pinkertons have commenced a
suit for libel against the mayor of
Jersey City, claiming $4,000 damages
on account of a letter he recently pub
lished rejecting Oh them.
John M. Scott intends to retire from
the bench Of the Illinois Supreme court
at the expiration Of his term. Owen
j. Reeves, of Bloomington, will be a
candidate for the vacancy.
The st. Paul. road has let the con-
tract for the extension of its tracks |
this season from Merrill to Fairbank |
lake, a distance of iifty-three miles, to |
reach the lumber region.
Miss Sarah Reed, of Erie, has sold to |
syndicate the track and franchises of |
the Ohio River Il Lake Erie road,
which will be expanded into a through |
line from Erie to Pittsbnrg.
The Lake Shore and Pennsylvania |
roads are again at war over their yard |
rights ut Erie. One hundred men en-
plOyed by the former company tore up |
one of the Pennsylvania tracks.
A man arrested at Marietta, Ohio,
who broke jail and released all the |
prisoners, is said by the Cleveland po-
lice to be undoubtedly the fur-thief |
rescued from train at Ravenna.
The editor of Berlin newspaper
was sent to prison for month for |
printing the false statement that the |
car shot the military attache of the |
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